Combinations of ethers and B(C6F5)3 function as hydrogenation catalysts

Lindsay J Hounjet; Christoph Bannwarth; Christian N Garon; Christopher B Caputo; Stefan Grimme; Douglas W Stephan

doi:10.1002/anie.201303166

Combinations of ethers and B(C6F5)3 function as hydrogenation catalysts

Angew Chem Int Ed Engl. 2013 Jul 15;52(29):7492-5. doi: 10.1002/anie.201303166. Epub 2013 Jun 14.

Authors

Lindsay J Hounjet¹, Christoph Bannwarth, Christian N Garon, Christopher B Caputo, Stefan Grimme, Douglas W Stephan

Affiliation

¹ Department of Chemistry, University of Toronto, 80 St. George Street, Toronto, Ontario, M5S 3H6, Canada.

PMID: 23775686
DOI: 10.1002/anie.201303166

Abstract

It works ether way: Labile adducts of dialkyl ethers with the electrophilic borane B(C6F5)3 are shown to scramble HD to H2 and D2 and catalyze the hydrogenation of 1,1-diphenylethylene.

Keywords: boranes; ethers; frustrated Lewis pairs; hydrogenation; organocatalysis.